Letters: Science in schools

Your editorial states: ‘Students will not want to take two or three
A/S levels as well as a couple of A levels because A levels are what count
with universities and employers.’

As Patten is committed to retaining A levels, he must take positive
action to make A/S levels more attractive. There are two easy ways of doing
this.

First, to accept that two A/S levels are more demanding than a single
A level and to recognise this by giving additional weighting to A/S levels.
I suggest 7,5,4,3 and 2 points instead of the 5,4,3,2 and 1 as now. …